Corn rootworms, pests responsible for billions of dollars in yearly crop losses, are evolving resistance that weakens even the latest biotechnology controls, according to a new study published in the ...

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego and Yale University have discovered that a natural protein produced by Bacillus thuringiensis, a bacterium sprayed on crops by organic farmers to ...

The world's most widely used organic insecticide, a plucky bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt for short, requires the assistance of other microbes to perform its insect-slaying work, a ...

A major challenge in bacterial developmental biology is to understand how the bacteria determine their fate at the cell level (Losick and Desplan, 2008; Lopez et al., 2009). To date, this question has ...

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/soil-bacteria-bt-has-a-life-beyond-gm-crops/article9952690.ece Copy Soil bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt ...

The basic idea of refuge crops is all about bug sex. About 88 percent of corn grown in the United States is genetically modified in some way. Most is what’s called Bt corn, meaning it’s been modified ...

The world’s most widely used organic insecticide relies on an insect’s normal gut flora to do its dirty work, a new study suggests. A bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis produces a toxin that ...

Natural born killer A new bacterial insecticide that is deadly against a wide range of insects could be approved within three to four years, say researchers. "Yersinia is quite famous because Yersinia ...